Zhong Lin Wang is the director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems and regents’ professor and hightower chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He pioneered the nanogenerator field for distributed energy, self-powered sensors, and large-scale blue energy. He has received the Nano Research Award (2022), Celsius Lecture Laureate, Uppsala University, Sweden (2020); the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019); Diels-Planck Lecture Award (2019); ENI Award in Energy Frontiers (2018); the James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from American Physical Society (2014); and MRS Medal from Materials Research Society (2011). He was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, a member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, an academician of the Academia of Sinica in 2018, and an international fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2019. He is the founding editor and chief editor of an international journal called Nano Energy, which now has an impact factor of 19.0. His scientific output includes 2652 publications, corresponding to 324,671 citations (h-index 272) (Scopus, 10 November 2023).